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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Ji Li stay close to on her first day in Jr. High?

2. Where did Mom work?

3. What did Bai Shan want to do for Ji Li?

4. What happened to An Yi's mother every day at school when Ji Li stopped attending?

5. What was Ji Li doing when she fainted?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Zhang Xin say when he first met Ji Li?

2. What did Ji Li find when she woke up on Chinese New Year?

3. What did Ji Li say to Comrade Ma about her family?

4. What did Comrade Ma offer to do for Ji Li once she changed her name?

5. How did Ji Li know that her father was hving troubles at work?

6. Why did Ji Li start staying home from school in Jr. High?

7. How did Ji Li feel about not knowing anyone in her Jr. High class?

8. Why was Ji Li forced to go back to Shang Hai in the summer?

9. What happened in Ji Li's study session?

10. How did Ji Li cheer up Ji Yun when she was bullied?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Friendship is a strong theme throughout the book. Where are some places that this theme appears, and how do the people touched by it react? How do certain friendships change over the course of the book, and what causes these changes?

Essay Topic 2

Death and mortality were two integral themes of this plot. What are some of the key examples of this theme, and how did the presence of this theme affect the main characters?

Essay Topic 3

Anger was a vice that reared its ugly head a number of times in this book. What are some examples of this, and how was the plot altered because of these incidents?

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